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The main session of the conference «The Kingdom’s Efforts in Consolidating the Values of Moderation and Cultural Coexistence: Concepts and Practices», organized by the University, represented by the College of Sharia and Islamic Studies, was held on Tuesday morning, 24/6/1441 AH, under the patronage of His Royal Highness Prince Dr. Faisal bin Meshaal bin Saud bin Abdulaziz, Governor of Qassim Region, where the session was chaired by His Excellency Prof. Dr. Abdullah bin Abdul Mohsen Al-Turki, Advisor to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, and a member of the Council of Senior Scholars, in the presence of a number of academics and scholars from several Islamic countries. 
At the beginning of the session, Al-Turki spoke about the Kingdom’s interest in consolidating the values of moderation and civilizational coexistence, which is extremely important, as it is known that the Kingdom started in its policy and dealings with others and in all its actions mainly from Islam, a country that was based on the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Prophet, and applied Islamic law, and paid attention to Islam and the Two Holy Mosques, in addition to Islamic centers and mosques in various countries of the world, most of which were built and supported by the Kingdom, pointing out that the Kingdom is aware that The message of Islam is a global message to the people, and the Kingdom is following this approach, which is a clear approach since its establishment from the first era to the era of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz – may Allah protect him – and His Highness the Crown Prince Al-Amin – may Allah protect him. 
During the session, H.E. Dr. Osama Al-Sayed Al-Azhari, Religious Advisor to the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, spoke about our institutes, universities and scientific colleges, stressing that they are in dire need of reconsidering the educational curricula that rebuild the integrated world that establishes urbanization, and establishes love of homelands, and emphasizes that the relationship between peoples and homelands is not conflict and clash, but is based on acquaintance as stipulated by the wise male, where Muslims come out to the world with coexistence, moderation, science, prosperity and technology industry, and to strike Muslims With a share in all other sciences and arts that the world respects. 
After that, Dr. Abdullah bin Mohammed Al-Fozan, Secretary General of the King Abdulaziz Center for National Dialogue, in his speech addressed the talk about the meeting, which is an innate instinct of man who cannot meet his needs himself, because we need everyone in their various fields to interact together in managing the affairs of our lives and achieve the rumors that we all need, pointing out that human gathering is the year of God in this universe with diversity, pluralism and difference in understandings, convictions, visions and perceptions, so we must exchange interests And the benefits between us as peoples, and this diversity, God willing, to make it one species, but this diversity is the source of human creativity, stressing that these different components unless they accept each other and coexist for each other, it pushes them to conflict, blood, migration and displacement, and this is what we see now in many Arab countries. 
For his part, Sheikh Mohammed Ibrahim Abdul Baath Ghoneim, a member of the World Association of Al-Azhar Alumni, said that the Arab and Islamic nation has not wished throughout its history for such divisions and conflicts that were the result of confusion of concepts in dealing with the wise text, since the Great Fitna of the Kharij, who launched verses that were revealed to the polytheists, and dropped them on Muslims, and that is the problem that resulted in what we see in our society of these differences, and there is no doubt that the method of scholars and jurists to provide a reading Reality with its variables, and then proceeds to the vastness of the text, where he finds in the diversity of his discourse a space to deal with those variables, stressing the importance of understanding the text. 
Mr. Zayed Saeed Saif Al Shamsi, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Emirates Bar Association, also delivered a speech during the main session in which he spoke about tolerance and the guarantee of rights and duties in society, pointing out that tolerance in Islamic law came with three criteria to achieve it, namely equality, justice and acceptance of the other, and this meaning may lead us to the conclusion that tolerance is the opposite of extremism and terrorism in particular, and the Arabs did not force anyone to enter into their religions by Islam, and did not want that the people of Quraish forced anyone to enter into their religions, The visit to Mecca was open to various sects, and over the existence of the Islamic State we found that all followers of divine religions, including Judaism and Christianity, lived among the backs of Muslims with dignity and equal rights with Muslims. 
At the end of the session, Mr. Sheikh Mohamed Mokhtar, President of the Bar Association of Mauritania, spoke and stressed that the Kingdom is the center of Islam, and its beating heart, and is the source of true Islamic values, free from extremism and exaggeration, and based on coexistence, tolerance and moderation, and far from the distorted images consecrated by the ultra-Orthodox and the merchants of religion, indicating that Mauritanians are the best ones to talk about the role played by Saudi Arabia in spreading the values of moderation and civilizational coexistence, during the last century and still play it today, with the scholars of Shanaqat were appreciated In this country they have received respect from the rulers and the people, speaking about the mutual efforts between the two countries, successive initiatives, and the firm position towards combating extremism and terrorism.